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(n) employment, work: (the occupation for which you are paid) "he is looking for employment"; "a lot of people are out of work"
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(n) oeuvre, work, body_of_work: (the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)) "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods"
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(n) plant, works, industrial_plant: (buildings for carrying on industrial labor) "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"
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(n) study, work: (applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)) "mastering a second language requires a lot of work"; "no schools offer graduate study in interior design"
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(n) whole_shebang, whole_kit_and_caboodle, kit_and_caboodle, whole_kit_and_boodle, kit_and_boodle, whole_kit, whole_caboodle, whole_works, works, full_treatment: (everything available; usually preceded by `the') "we saw the whole shebang"; "a hotdog with the works"; "we took on the whole caboodle"; "for $10 you get the full treatment"
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(n) work: (activity directed toward making or doing something) "she checked several points needing further work"
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(n) work, piece_of_work: (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing) "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"
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(n) work: ((physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force) "work equals force times distance"
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(n) workplace, work: (a place where work is done) "he arrived at work early today"
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(n) works, deeds: (performance of moral or religious acts) "salvation by deeds"; "the reward for good works"
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(n) works, workings: (the internal mechanism of a device)